An Indian Army tank and a BMP during a drill in Jammu. (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Army is set to bring its Mechanized Infantry Regiment and Armoured Corps under a single directorate from June 1, reversing a separation that had kept the two com...
File photo of Indian troops under Unifil mission in south Lebanon near Israel border.New Delhi: The number of troops and other personnel deployed on international peacekeeping missions has fallen to its lowest level in at least a quarter century, wit...
BSF women mountaineers complete historic Everest bid (Photo: BSF)The recent successful scaling of Mount Everest by four Border Security Force women personnel is not merely a mountaineering achievement. It is, in many ways, a quiet but profound social...
There is a particular kind of infrastructure that only reveals its true value when things go wrong. It sits quietly, doing its job, attracting none of the attention that crises generate and emergency aid attracts. Then the crisis comes – the re...
The Kyiv city centre. (Photo: Glib Albovsky/Unsplash) In nearly four decades of soldiering, this author has stood on some of India’s most unforgiving frontiers – commanded a battalion in the western sector during Operation Parakram a...
CDS General Anil Chauhan. (File photo)— By Dhanashree ValunjkarOn May 14 in the wood-panelled hall of the Manekshaw Centre at Delhi Cantonment, General Anil Chauhan, the second chief of defence staff, delivered what may well be remembered as on...
New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully completed the final development trials of the unmanned aerial vehicle-launched precision-guided missile (ULPGM)-V3, testing the weapon system in both air-to-ground a...
New Delhi: Raghu Vamsi Machine Tools Pvt Ltd, a Hyderabad-based aerospace and defence manufacturer, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board (APEDB) to establish a large-scale manufacturing complex i...
New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, and the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, N Chandrababu Naidu, will jointly inaugurate groundbreaking ceremonies for six projects on May 15, anchoring a renewed push to make the state a hub for mil...